is enough to change his mind. Perhaps it will take an altogether more dramatic attempt on Jordan's life to make DI James sit up and take notice. Wave and Die (2001) In the sequel to Pray and Die, off-the-wall private investigator Jordan Lacey has progressed to cases of an entirely different class: from missing tortoises to stolen water lilies and vandalism at the Women's institute. But Sussex wives will be careless with their husbands, and soon enough Jordan is on the trail of another missing spouse. Complications arise when the husband in question is found dead in a burning showroom, and his 'wife' turns out not to be married to him. Then Jordan is accused of the arson attack at the scene of the crime and really starts to wonder whether sleuthing is her true vocation. There's a silver lining to every cloud, however, now that Jordan's in this deep, she doesn't have to via for the attention of dishy DI James, since he's hounding her. Spin and Die (2002) Zany and eccentric PI Jordan Lacey takes on her new case with verve and ingenuity. She is hired to follow Sonia Spiller, a woman suspected of a compensation fraud against a Latching department store. And then there's a second surveillance case in the same department store - to track down vanishing stock, posing as a temporary sales assistant. It's Christmas and Jordan even helps DI James buy a present for his mother. But when a man spins to his death on Hell's Revenge, a high-tech, scary funfair ride, Jordan realizes the cases are horribly linked. The plot thickens as Jordan herself is accused of being a stalker, a JCB destroys the bowling pavilion revealing some grisly remains and one of her friends gets beaten up. Jordan is even trapped in a watermill wheel - but will the dashing DI James come to her rescue? Hide and Die (2003) The fourth in the much-acclaimed Jordan Lacey series Jordan Lacey, Latching's intrepid and unconventional P.I., has two new cases to solve: a paternity dispute and a weird cross-dressing mystery. Neither case is as simple as it seems and during her roller-coaster investigations, she unearths more than she expects. She becomes entangled in a ten-year-old unsolved murder and it doesn't help when she is held hostage by a bull mastiff, engulfed by a freak tidal wave and poisoned by some suspicious parsley. Her